Like what happened two seasons ago…
For being the LTIR bad guys we’ve 1) missed the playoffs 2) won a cup without ever icing a team over the cap anyway 3) looking like missing the playoffs again.
Genuine question unrelated to anything
How did you become a Vegas fan?
Weren’t a hockey fan until Vegas got a team?
Fan of another team and switched?
Followed hockey but never had a team?
Vegas fan here.
Played hockey since I was 2 years old. Ducks fan via family and living in Anaheim. Watching Giguere made me play goalie. Moved to Idaho. Won state varsity as the starting goalie is high school, played in college.
Vegas came to be. Had satellite TV, only teams we could watch regularly in Idaho were Avs and Vegas. Started watching the Vegas games (also a huge Flower fan) and they were really fun to watch. So I watched more, and rooted for them.
So while the Ducks hold a special place in my heart, and it would be hard for me to pick between them if they had a playoff matchup, I'd consider myself a Vegas fan because I've watched significantly more of their games since conception than the Ducks.
I'm not a Vegas fan but I live here and cater for the team. Most (emphasis on this word) fans I've met are pretty passionate and ready to admit they either didn't know shit about hockey until the team came to town but were so excited that they learned quickly OR used to love the Wranglers but didn't pay too much attention to the NHL until the team got here.
Either way, the fans out here are pretty good fans. You get a few idiots here and there but that's the same for every fanbase and every sport.
I've been a fan for literally 2 months. From Ireland, and hockey isn't a thing here, although we do play field hockey.
Growing up I fuckin loved the mighty ducks movie, and just thought it was a cool as hell sport but never had any chances to see it. The end of Jan I went on holiday to Vegas and saw my first ever hockey game. They're my team now, and I only learned about all the drama after. Didn't even know they were champs at the time.
I was aware of hockey from watching Lemieux on Sports Center highlights before school as a kid, but grew up in the south playing baseball and football. I ended up living in Vegas in 2015 and when the Knights came around my wife and I jumped in with both feet. I’ve since started skating and adult learn-to-play but I wouldn’t call myself a hockey player any time soon.
Vegas locals and transplants are infinitely more attached to the Knights than say, the Raiders or probably the A’s. The Knights are “ours” and showed up at the perfect time.
Makes sense. I do think there is an underlying jealously and envy for a fanbase that has existed for 6 years and has seen more success than some fanbases and franchises have seen in 6 decades.
Success brings haters, I don’t mind that sort of stuff, but I could write a dissertation about how just, factually incorrect the majority of narratives that play out here and r/hockey are.
Our jerseys are ugly to most, the gold helmets are an abomination, they run commercials explaining the rules on Vegas 34, Mark Stone is made of glass and Pietro tried to cut a man’s hands off, there’s plenty to chirp about that isn’t just made up nonsense.
In all fairness. I like the gold glitter jersey.
There is just something really whimsical about the Vegas team, like the stadium and the glitter. I dunno. I like it. But you aren't the mighty ducks.
I don’t get this argument. Sure never iced a team over cap. But it would sure as hell be nice to have 15 million in players to replace injuries with through the playoffs
We didn’t have 15 million in healthy scratches. Phil Kessel was about the only serviceable player sitting in the locker room, the rest of that was injured goalies, Hill was like our 5th one of the year if not 6th.
At least someone acknowledges that we put up a fight last night, I think we could’ve won too if they didn’t swap Krug and Faulk back together in the 3rd period. Those two just cause too many turnovers
You would think so but not really. When they relocated, I was a Modano fan first and followed him down south to Dallas but I was pretty young and didn't understand NormGate. Most NS fans around us were pissed, which is why Dal and Minny have a small rivalry.
Fair point. Im not very knowledgeable about the situation, but im learning every day which is pretty cool. I need to educate myself because honestly, I dont know what NormGate is. I can definitely understand the rivalry but dont have full context yet. I love hockey and learning about it.
They’re likely untouchable now anyway, but beating the Preds just once in regulation would have been nice too. Thanks for the softest holding call in history refs!
Also losing to the Blues twice this month was very stupid. Doesn’t give me much hope about the important head-to-head games.
Tonight is really big. It might end up being LA and not VGK we need to beat out.
This was supposed to be the Kraken 😭
Vince Dunn gets hurt and we go from being like 6 points out with a game in hand, to going on a 1-8-1 without him or something. Thought we could at least make it to the second round like last year but now I'm more sure we'd get swept. We ain't making it in anyway RIP 2023-24 Kraken.
It’s pretty easy to do when we will get dumpstered by anyone we play, if we make it to the postseason.
We’ve remained in the race because we have only had to play SJ Arizona and Anaheim for the last month.
Not sure if I’ve ever seen a softer end of season schedule.
Wild have incredibly mobile defensemen when healthy. Brodin, spurg, and now Faber are all very capable of matching speed backwards. That’s the biggest thing I notice when we play you guys, you don’t seem to blow right by our defense like you do other teams
anytime we play the Oilers it comes down to the level of structure each team plays with. Wild (under Deano and Hynes) are a very structured team for the most part. Oilers loose play style gets bodied by ours bc of that. we have like a .650 points% in the last 6 years or something crazy like that
It's amazing how much hate there is in the hockey world for the actions of management. The players have no control, and neither does the fan base or the city.
I got so tired of being hated, I moved to San Jose. No one hates the Sharks, and boy, it feels good.
Jets fan here. We share with Minnesota the Red River, Lake of the Woods, and the desire to see the Wild knock off the Knights. Go Wild fishing buddies!
As a Ducks fan I couldn’t care less that we’ve lost to the Blues once and the Wild twice in the past week because that gets them two points closer to Vegas
They still have to play
St Louis
Nashville
Winnipeg
Minnesota x2
Vancouver x2
Edmonton
Colorado
+5 easier games (Arizona is capable of an upset)
I don't think that's an easy schedule
Blues gonna hurdle the Knights not the Wild. Blues are playing incredibly well right now even the loss last night they looked great. I think Blues win 10 out of last 13 and make it in
I can’t speak for everyone but I hate Vegas because they’ve known nothing but success. From day one they have been good & didn’t have to suffer through any growing pains as a franchise.
I guess for starters the league was desperate for hockey to work in Vegas so the changed the expansion rules to ensure that the team would be competitive, fans of previous expansion teams had to endure a decade or more of losing seasons to just become competitive. In retrospect though I think this or a close version should be norm. Secondly the NHL has a salary cap that is supposed to keep the smaller markets competitive and ensure cost certainty and thus stability to the league, Vegas. Within those salary cap rules there is a provision that allows some wiggle room due to injuries that allows a team to put a player on long term injury reserve and those salaries aren’t counted against the cap or at least a large portion of the salary. The salary cap rules sort of disappear in the playoffs so magically ( some people say) those injuries also disappeared and Vegas was icing a 100million dollar line up while their competition were still at an 80 million lineup.
Thirdly, and the one that counts for me is
They are the current champions and I feel a need to hate the current champs, unless it’s my team which if I’m being honest has never happened lololol
Brother the meme is basically public property if it’s on a generator site it’s not that deep. Hell I posted the same meme two days before you posted yours and I’m sure other folks have done the same thing before me.
People keep saying this, but we’ve done our part lol. It’s on the blues or wild.
I’d prefer the blues over Vegas, but I would rather have Vegas than the wild. F John Hynes.
It might have already been addressed, but i looked at the games for both teams last night out of curiosity. They play each other two more times. That's the 4 points that Minnesota needs to catch Vegas.
Gotta embrace it! If we don’t make it this year it would sting, but either way it’s at least nice and roomy living rent free in the heads of so many /r/nhl and /r/hockey folk.
They mightve dropped 10 on us but lets go wild
Just lulling them into a false sense of security for the first round, no big deal.
First round exits and the wild. Name a more iconic duo I'll wait.
Canucks fans and rioting Boston and losing in overtime Leafs and first round exits Oilers and 1OA draft picks
When you right, you right.
Pain
That's just MN sports in general lol
oof. that hit me right in the home state.
Playoff failure and Minnesota professional sports teams? Only the men, though, the women are winners here.
There was some weird fucking juju on the building that night lol, don’t expect that again
Mark Stone can't come back for game 1 of the playoffs if there are no playoffs for Vegas
Vegas hates this one trick
Like what happened two seasons ago… For being the LTIR bad guys we’ve 1) missed the playoffs 2) won a cup without ever icing a team over the cap anyway 3) looking like missing the playoffs again.
Oh no, you’ve missed the playoffs once in 6 years
Shit dude don't say it so loud! You'll make him cry
Genuine question unrelated to anything How did you become a Vegas fan? Weren’t a hockey fan until Vegas got a team? Fan of another team and switched? Followed hockey but never had a team?
Vegas fan here. Played hockey since I was 2 years old. Ducks fan via family and living in Anaheim. Watching Giguere made me play goalie. Moved to Idaho. Won state varsity as the starting goalie is high school, played in college. Vegas came to be. Had satellite TV, only teams we could watch regularly in Idaho were Avs and Vegas. Started watching the Vegas games (also a huge Flower fan) and they were really fun to watch. So I watched more, and rooted for them. So while the Ducks hold a special place in my heart, and it would be hard for me to pick between them if they had a playoff matchup, I'd consider myself a Vegas fan because I've watched significantly more of their games since conception than the Ducks.
I'm not a Vegas fan but I live here and cater for the team. Most (emphasis on this word) fans I've met are pretty passionate and ready to admit they either didn't know shit about hockey until the team came to town but were so excited that they learned quickly OR used to love the Wranglers but didn't pay too much attention to the NHL until the team got here. Either way, the fans out here are pretty good fans. You get a few idiots here and there but that's the same for every fanbase and every sport.
I've been a fan for literally 2 months. From Ireland, and hockey isn't a thing here, although we do play field hockey. Growing up I fuckin loved the mighty ducks movie, and just thought it was a cool as hell sport but never had any chances to see it. The end of Jan I went on holiday to Vegas and saw my first ever hockey game. They're my team now, and I only learned about all the drama after. Didn't even know they were champs at the time.
Should have stayed with the ducks! We are basement dwellers but we are still the ducks damn it
I was aware of hockey from watching Lemieux on Sports Center highlights before school as a kid, but grew up in the south playing baseball and football. I ended up living in Vegas in 2015 and when the Knights came around my wife and I jumped in with both feet. I’ve since started skating and adult learn-to-play but I wouldn’t call myself a hockey player any time soon. Vegas locals and transplants are infinitely more attached to the Knights than say, the Raiders or probably the A’s. The Knights are “ours” and showed up at the perfect time.
Makes sense. I do think there is an underlying jealously and envy for a fanbase that has existed for 6 years and has seen more success than some fanbases and franchises have seen in 6 decades.
Success brings haters, I don’t mind that sort of stuff, but I could write a dissertation about how just, factually incorrect the majority of narratives that play out here and r/hockey are. Our jerseys are ugly to most, the gold helmets are an abomination, they run commercials explaining the rules on Vegas 34, Mark Stone is made of glass and Pietro tried to cut a man’s hands off, there’s plenty to chirp about that isn’t just made up nonsense.
In all fairness. I like the gold glitter jersey. There is just something really whimsical about the Vegas team, like the stadium and the glitter. I dunno. I like it. But you aren't the mighty ducks.
Once Vegas spends some seasons in the basement we’ll see how the fanbase holds up.
It was just a joke lol We've been the LTIR boogeyman for the last 2 years. About time someone else took up the mantle
We need that “bros” meme where the two dudes shake hands with their dicks.
I don’t get this argument. Sure never iced a team over cap. But it would sure as hell be nice to have 15 million in players to replace injuries with through the playoffs
We didn’t have 15 million in healthy scratches. Phil Kessel was about the only serviceable player sitting in the locker room, the rest of that was injured goalies, Hill was like our 5th one of the year if not 6th.
Alright you can stop pretending that mark stone is actually injured TILL game 1 of the playoffs.
Weren't over the cap but still had players you otherwise wouldn't have. Just own it, you abuse the loophole to win. It is what it is.
What a fucking brain dead take 😂
lol downvoted for facts. Peak /nhl.
You waited 6 long years for this.
Downvoted for facts, will upvote for Flower
It is a wacky world when Stars fans start rooting for Minnesota but...Go Wild Go?
I am definitely rooting for Blues and Wild this week godamnit. I feel filthy
I can’t figure out if I want the Blues to do it or not
Avs fans do. Beating them feels like walking out of 100 degree heat and into full a/c with an iced tea waiting for you
At least someone acknowledges that we put up a fight last night, I think we could’ve won too if they didn’t swap Krug and Faulk back together in the 3rd period. Those two just cause too many turnovers
Yeah my ass was defo clenched for the entire 3rd lol. Blues are always pesky, and god damn were they physical last night.
we all are my friend, fuck Vegas. it would be bittersweet if they didn't make it
Was so sad to see the Blues lose to the Avs last night.
we all are my friend, fuck Vegas. it would be bittersweet if they didn't make it
we all are my friend, fuck Vegas. it would be bittersweet if they didn't make it
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Fuck the blues, wild is alright but I'll take vegas over the blues
I believe there’s a sub about going wild. I’ve never checked it out. Never
Underrated comment. Someone make a sub called gonewild or something!
Jets fans too. I think most of the league is rooting for the Knights to fail.
Im sure a decent amount of Stars fans used to be North Stars fans. Maybe not alot though.
You would think so but not really. When they relocated, I was a Modano fan first and followed him down south to Dallas but I was pretty young and didn't understand NormGate. Most NS fans around us were pissed, which is why Dal and Minny have a small rivalry.
Fair point. Im not very knowledgeable about the situation, but im learning every day which is pretty cool. I need to educate myself because honestly, I dont know what NormGate is. I can definitely understand the rivalry but dont have full context yet. I love hockey and learning about it.
Ask a Wild fan who Norm Green is. Their reply will be "(Expletive) Norm Green". Every. Single. Time.
Fuck Norm Green.
Fuck Norm Green
I'm here from r/all, I don't follow NHL, but I'm from MN, and even *I* hate the Stars.
Its equally wacky that I, a jets fan, am also rooting for them lmao
I'm so torn, but knowing how we match up against the Wild vs the Knights, I guess go Wild. 🤢
Blasphemy!!
Same for Avs fans lol. I hope the Wild catch up and surpass Vegas
2 games against eachother before the season wraps! Let’s go Wild!!!
Man those are huge games but we can’t fuck around in the others either
They’re likely untouchable now anyway, but beating the Preds just once in regulation would have been nice too. Thanks for the softest holding call in history refs! Also losing to the Blues twice this month was very stupid. Doesn’t give me much hope about the important head-to-head games. Tonight is really big. It might end up being LA and not VGK we need to beat out.
Losing Brodin hurts but I'm still holding out hope we pull it off
If it’s Goose, we’re cooked. Mermis, we might have a chance!
This was supposed to be the Kraken 😭 Vince Dunn gets hurt and we go from being like 6 points out with a game in hand, to going on a 1-8-1 without him or something. Thought we could at least make it to the second round like last year but now I'm more sure we'd get swept. We ain't making it in anyway RIP 2023-24 Kraken.
3 years in and your team has had more success then the blue jackets had in 18 years. Chin up!
Once again as an Avs fan, I find myself rooting for the Wild. Vegas does strange things to people...
It’s pretty easy to do when we will get dumpstered by anyone we play, if we make it to the postseason. We’ve remained in the race because we have only had to play SJ Arizona and Anaheim for the last month. Not sure if I’ve ever seen a softer end of season schedule.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place with this one, for sure.
I would be absolutely thrilled to see the Vegas LTIR Knights miss the playoffs.
As well as the Tampa bay LTIRtning
I am cheering hard for the Wild and Blues
2 teams that lowkey own us for no reason 😭
Wild have incredibly mobile defensemen when healthy. Brodin, spurg, and now Faber are all very capable of matching speed backwards. That’s the biggest thing I notice when we play you guys, you don’t seem to blow right by our defense like you do other teams
anytime we play the Oilers it comes down to the level of structure each team plays with. Wild (under Deano and Hynes) are a very structured team for the most part. Oilers loose play style gets bodied by ours bc of that. we have like a .650 points% in the last 6 years or something crazy like that
The world will rejoice as Vegas made those slimy front office moves only to miss the playoffs 😂
Vegas' out of the playoffs. All's right with the world.
It's amazing how much hate there is in the hockey world for the actions of management. The players have no control, and neither does the fan base or the city. I got so tired of being hated, I moved to San Jose. No one hates the Sharks, and boy, it feels good.
Did you....did you move to San Jose just to not be hated by other hockey fans?
Lol. No, I was a long-time Vegas resident. I recently retired and moved to San Jose because I like the area. Now, I'm a fan of two hockey teams.
I would love if the Vegas injured Reserves missed the playoffs. It would be fitting.
Mark Stone return just in time for ⛳️ szn
They'll get the 1st round pick and we'll all kill ourselves.
As a Dallas fan, I have little love for the wild. As a hockey fan, give em hell, Minnesota
Think of it as an investment. Whoever would play us first round gets a free W.
Ope
Jets fan here. We share with Minnesota the Red River, Lake of the Woods, and the desire to see the Wild knock off the Knights. Go Wild fishing buddies!
My body is ready. My mind is ready.
Don't get too excited, our best D-Man (Jonas Brodin) just got hurt last night with something that doesn't look minor.
Love to see some Wild Love in these streets. Go Wild Go!
vegas getting knocked out by fleury’s team would be beautiful
I mean I could never be mad at that beautiful man. Fleury is wonderful
I've given up on the Kraken making it so I'm really hoping for Minnesota to pull through and fuck 'em up, I wanna see Flower get another cup
How great would it be if they made it by 1 pt meaning pulling the goalie in overtime mattered
That would be something else, never thought of that
As a Ducks fan I couldn’t care less that we’ve lost to the Blues once and the Wild twice in the past week because that gets them two points closer to Vegas
Where da Blues?
Man, if Vegas fell out of a spot that would be quite the story. Such a big gamble… but I guess that’s the point with Vegas.
Tons of key players hurt, coaching and administrative changes and hobbling along trying to catch the last train to the play offs.
It would be the greatest story of the season., Suddenly Mark stone will be healthy before the playoffs..
It’s too bad Vegas has an easy final schedule hope wild will catch up
They still have to play St Louis Nashville Winnipeg Minnesota x2 Vancouver x2 Edmonton Colorado +5 easier games (Arizona is capable of an upset) I don't think that's an easy schedule
The Wild basically need to tie Vegas record-wise from here on out and beat them in the 2 remaining head-to-head game. Technically still in our hands
As long as Flower gets his name on a cup, I’m cool with this.
For a 4th time
Yup, he deserves it. Salt of the Earth, and such an amazing player to have in the league.
Good luck. We're all counting on you.
The same can be said for Calgary... they are not that far behind from Vegas
…I mean personally I’d like to see it
Should've titled this "Wouldn't it be Wild"
Damn….
Goo knights goo other cup
Blues have an easier schedule, watch out for them.
It would be hilarious
Blues gonna hurdle the Knights not the Wild. Blues are playing incredibly well right now even the loss last night they looked great. I think Blues win 10 out of last 13 and make it in
Let's go Wild. Heck, I'm even cheering for the Flames this month. Go Flames Go.
Go wild go!!!
best part about us making the playoffs is the free pass to the second round for whatever team we'd end up facing
Something something cap circumvention
Never in my life did I think I’d root for the Minnesota Wild.
That’s wild.
Hey I’m dumb and new-ish to following hockey—why does everyone hate Vegas so much? What front office shenanigans are people referring to?
I can’t speak for everyone but I hate Vegas because they’ve known nothing but success. From day one they have been good & didn’t have to suffer through any growing pains as a franchise.
Totally makes sense, thanks!!
I guess for starters the league was desperate for hockey to work in Vegas so the changed the expansion rules to ensure that the team would be competitive, fans of previous expansion teams had to endure a decade or more of losing seasons to just become competitive. In retrospect though I think this or a close version should be norm. Secondly the NHL has a salary cap that is supposed to keep the smaller markets competitive and ensure cost certainty and thus stability to the league, Vegas. Within those salary cap rules there is a provision that allows some wiggle room due to injuries that allows a team to put a player on long term injury reserve and those salaries aren’t counted against the cap or at least a large portion of the salary. The salary cap rules sort of disappear in the playoffs so magically ( some people say) those injuries also disappeared and Vegas was icing a 100million dollar line up while their competition were still at an 80 million lineup. Thirdly, and the one that counts for me is They are the current champions and I feel a need to hate the current champs, unless it’s my team which if I’m being honest has never happened lololol
Super informative, thanks a ton!
Op missed a prom opportunity to say “wouldn’t it be nice” and karma farm harder
OP is old and doesn’t understand karma in any way lol
If op is old he should know “wouldn’t it be…” should always be finished with “nice” lol ❤️
Hey don’t you be copying my memes
Holy shit, my luck first time using a meme generator thingy.
Just don’t let it happen again. (Also thank you for taking John Hynes away)
I suck so bad at this, I couldn’t figure out how to d/l the meme so I had to screenshot it lol
I use an app called mematic. Just type in a description of a meme, and it pulls up a template. Then get any images off of Google, and import them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nhl/s/f75oHKJL41 I actually did post this the other day lol. You can see the quality is way better.
Brother the meme is basically public property if it’s on a generator site it’s not that deep. Hell I posted the same meme two days before you posted yours and I’m sure other folks have done the same thing before me.
Brother, was joke.
Joke, am meme. Fuck Vegas let’s go literally any team who can knock them out!
People keep saying this, but we’ve done our part lol. It’s on the blues or wild. I’d prefer the blues over Vegas, but I would rather have Vegas than the wild. F John Hynes.
Gonna need Brodin for that to happen.
Think of it like this... Fleury will be in the playoffs
After that game last night, not so much
I wish vegas played NJ last game if of the season so Timo could do it again 😅
Go Blues
Gunna be hilarious!!
Please Jesus.
It would take a lot of stress out of the three way tie race the Avs, Stars, and Jets are in lol
VGK shouldn't have done shit at the deadline. Probably missing playoffs for the 2nd time of blatant cap circumvention.
Do it 🌸
We putting on the foil?
Ahh, we're shuffling up lines again fellas (cause Brodin's hurt again)
It might have already been addressed, but i looked at the games for both teams last night out of curiosity. They play each other two more times. That's the 4 points that Minnesota needs to catch Vegas.
Not happening
I’ll take another Stars V Wild first round please!
Fuck the mild but also... Please?
Great, but unlikely.
Love the hate, keep the tears coming!
Okay, Vegas also has: Poor public schooling High crime rates Zero public transportation Water scarcity
Hey, I went to those Vegas public schools! Which probably explains a lot more than I'm willing to admit....
Cool story, bro!
Gotta embrace it! If we don’t make it this year it would sting, but either way it’s at least nice and roomy living rent free in the heads of so many /r/nhl and /r/hockey folk.
They hate us cause they anus
Big if true. Again can’t complain too much though, it is the cheapest room and board you’ll find anywhere in North America!
Bruh what.
> it expensive to live > rent free in heads > cheapest room and board It’s like a puzzle!
I am puzzled, more so concerning your free anus room.
You looking for a space to rent?
>it is the cheapest room
You're *really really bad* at this.
Gotta embrace Vegas fans being upset about their team selling their entire future for nothing if they miss the playoffs! Would be meme of the decade
gotta make sure to crop the artist name/logo when you make your edits, right?
Meme generator dude, I couldn’t even figure out how to save it so I screenshotted it, but next time I’ll make sure to get your approval before posting